“It’s the Economy, Stupid”
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Most Americans, thanks to the failure of the mainstream media, believe that elections are about several critical issues. History proves that one issue stands high above all rhe rest, during every election in history: the economy. The average person is concerned about one thing and one thing only: the welfare of their family. When an election is on the horizon, voters pay attention to their own quality of life, and answer a decade’s old question: “are you better off than you were four years ago?” UNINFORMED VOTERS BLEW IT IN THE 2024 ELECTION Fact: President Joe Biden’s fiscal policy was the most successful since Bill Clinton’s in 1999. Our nation had problems, but the overall success of our nation’s economic future under Biden was moving forward. The truth is, the problems that remained were created by his predecessor, Donald Trump. Between 2017 and 2021, Trump added $4 trillion to the deficit, and our nation was nearing a second Great Depression. In 2026, he ha...